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Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks. Ten takeaways from week nine

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks, and Rhett Lewis. What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Move the Sticks, presented by Zaxby's DJ. Bucky

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Speaker 1: Rhett back with you for our takeaways here from week nine.

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Speaker 1: Buck how's it going, man? Man? Everything is good. A

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Speaker 1: great weekend of football. The progames were outstanding. What do

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Speaker 1: you think, Rhet? What do you think about what we

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Speaker 1: saw this weekend? But we're talking about Sunday or Saturday

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Speaker 1: because I feel like I feel like Bucky and I

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Speaker 1: have something in common here following this last week of

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Speaker 1: college football that has left you on the outside looking in?

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Speaker 1: Is that perhaps the a P Top twenty five rankings

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Speaker 1: or is it? How does it feel? Is North Carolina ranked?

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Speaker 1: North Carolina? We're back? They we're back. We're back. We

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Speaker 1: had a we had a hiccup last week, but we're back. Okay, Well, Rhet, Right,

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Speaker 1: all I can tell you. All I can tell you

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Speaker 1: how it ended. And I don't care if Indiana's ranked

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Speaker 1: will put my life savings on app State against Indiana

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Speaker 1: look just you just wait. Ohio State's coming here in

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Speaker 1: my gosh, hail to the victors. What in the world

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Speaker 1: that is a bad football team? Yeah, Michigan's Michigan is

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Speaker 1: not great. But look, this is a big win. And uh,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get let's get cranked up here, Bucky,

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Speaker 1: why don't you back lead off today? Going to Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen goes off. Josh Challen in the gun, takes

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Speaker 1: white amazing interception touchdown, Buffalo. Man, you talk about wanting

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Speaker 1: to Seattle Seahawks defense, it is a get right game

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Speaker 1: hundred yard day. And what's so interesting about the way

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was an out of the box game plan.

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Speaker 1: You talked about really attacking and exploiting a team's weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills attacked the Seahawks secondary and they did

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Speaker 1: Right now, they have given up over twenty hundred on

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Speaker 1: moving here number two. Take away number two on Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that tagline that was not that

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Speaker 1: and efficient level against the Cordon and Bucky. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you mentioned all that weird ten game audition talk, like

432
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Speaker 1: they would actually go back and draft another quarterback number

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Speaker 1: one if they're taking two and five. Look, this was

434
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Speaker 1: not about the future like we had to see ten

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Speaker 1: games for the future. This was about the Patriots on

436
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Speaker 1: a four game losing streak. This is about the Dolphins

437
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Speaker 1: being within two games of first place in the a

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Speaker 1: f C East in a division that hasn't been up

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Speaker 1: for grabs in more than a decade. And it's about

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Speaker 1: the fact that Ryan Fitzpatrick, while a serviceable starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect intended to Fitzpatrick, while a serviceable quarterback,

442
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Speaker 1: was not the one that was going to in fact

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Speaker 1: lead them to that type of rare air in Miami

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Speaker 1: in the last you know, fifteen years. You know what, guys,

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Speaker 1: you know? And how that I think about it, it

446
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Speaker 1: reminds me of something that I've seen with the tenth

447
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Speaker 1: ranked Indiana Hoosiers in the last year. So who saw

448
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Speaker 1: Peyton Ramsey come in and lead them essentially to an

449
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Speaker 1: eight wins season last year into a Bowl game appearance,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't able to make enough plays at the

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Speaker 1: end of games to beat high quality opponents. Whereas you

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Speaker 1: bring in and you turn back to a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennox with a higher ceiling, with a bigger playmaking ability,

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Speaker 1: and then you see the lights of penn State and

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Speaker 1: Michigan drop. Uh, you know, as the Hoosiers go three.

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Speaker 1: So look, you know you see the comparison to the

457
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Speaker 1: higher ceiling gives the Dolphins greater opportunity to compete in

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Speaker 1: this division and have a legit shot at a playoff

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Speaker 1: appearance this year. Now read, I agree with you. I

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Speaker 1: never thought that we would have Miami Dolphins Indiana Hoosiers Coperson,

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Speaker 1: But I'll let it go because you are right. Floores.

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Speaker 1: Roll the dice to go with the younger quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: in rolling the dice to go with the younger quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I think he wanted to make sure that he kept

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Speaker 1: the turnovers down. This is not a team that has

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Speaker 1: a big margin for air when it comes to winning games.

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Speaker 1: Playing smart and efficient from the quarterback position gives them

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Speaker 1: a chance to win a ton of games. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: fell asleep there for a little. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I miss What was talking about Indiana football for the

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Speaker 1: second time in the show. I I dozed off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean like that's that's by you've dozed off. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's so has that state so much so far this season?

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Speaker 1: So oh wow, we've got one loss. We've got one loss.

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Speaker 1: That's that early in the season. We're gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win a conference, We're gonna win a bowl games.

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Speaker 1: What we do? All right, let's uh well, I do

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Speaker 1: want to tease one thing here to kind of wrap

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Speaker 1: this thing up on these young quarterbacks, because, um man,

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, if you look inside the division, Bills got

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Speaker 1: their quarterback. Now what Josh Allene, He's proven that with

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Speaker 1: what he's done this year. It looks as though Miami

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Speaker 1: has their quarterback, which is going to free them up

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Speaker 1: with Houston's pick, which looks like it could be a

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Speaker 1: top ten pick here to go get another big time

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Speaker 1: impact player as well as their own first round picks.

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Speaker 1: A lot of draft capital still left, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to the Monday night game because those two teams

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Speaker 1: are the two that don't have that quarterback of the

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Speaker 1: future nailed down. Maybe it's Sam Donald, we don't know,

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Speaker 1: but neither one of those teams can have the same

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Speaker 1: comfort level as it's teams do in Miami and in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And look, we're right now at number seven. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get it right to it with the Tennessee Titans. The

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Speaker 1: Titans find a way to bounce back. Tannehill takes the stamp,

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Speaker 1: looks fires, Pete cant Field going for Browny Tart at

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Speaker 1: the Tan at the five, he stretch the five. Titan.

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Speaker 1: J Brown please fair have a forty yard t d A. J.

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Speaker 1: Brown was the star of the day. Four catches, a

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Speaker 1: hundred and one yards. We saw the four yard touchdown

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Speaker 1: that he was able to put in the pain because

502
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Speaker 1: this was really a sleepy game for the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill was just okay. Derrick Henry did not have

504
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Speaker 1: a hundred yard game, but they did just enough to

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Speaker 1: win the game. And I feel like whenever I watched

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, that's just kind of how they play.

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Speaker 1: They do just enough to knock off the teams, and

508
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Speaker 1: they're supposed to knock off You wonder will they be

509
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Speaker 1: good enough to kock off one of those heavyweight contenders,

510
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Speaker 1: But right now they're well positioned to make them make

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Speaker 1: a run in the postseason and then we'll see if

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Speaker 1: they can improve enough to really have a long stay

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Speaker 1: when they get there. Yeah, but you can't say the

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Speaker 1: same for the Bears, who now have three straight losses

515
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Speaker 1: to quality opponents, which make those three consecutive wins to

516
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Speaker 1: start the season look more and more like a mirage,

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Speaker 1: as every one of those teams are now well under

518
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Speaker 1: five hundred. Look, Barkivous Mingo, a former top ten pick

519
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Speaker 1: at edge rusher of the Cleveland Browns, was the bears

520
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Speaker 1: best offensive player, and he was the left wing on

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Speaker 1: punt coverage in the first half and had the bears

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Speaker 1: longest run of the day out of fake punt. It

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Speaker 1: went for eleven yards and you know what the Bears

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Speaker 1: offense did with it. You know what they did with it.

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Speaker 1: They went three and out, which is why they had

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Speaker 1: the punt team on in the first place. And so, look,

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Speaker 1: I get it, they've got some injuries along the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: so does every team in the league here at this point,

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Speaker 1: their run game is non existent. The past game is

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Speaker 1: I don't I mean, it's anemic, and it makes it

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Speaker 1: feel like the three point lead that the Titans held

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Speaker 1: for a good part of this game was insurmountable for

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Speaker 1: the Bears. They filled some statutes with some garbage numbers

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Speaker 1: towards the end and brought it within a score late,

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Speaker 1: but it never felt like this game was in doubt,

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Speaker 1: even though the Titans had a slim lead throughout the

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Speaker 1: entire first half. The Bears offense is just an absolute

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Speaker 1: perplexing mess at this point. DJ. Yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of lakes in the Midwest and uh and right now,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Mike Zimmer and the Minnesota Vikings are

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Speaker 1: just they just have got the Chicago Bears on the

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Speaker 1: hook and they're starting to just quickly just kind of

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Speaker 1: reel them. And it just seems like a matter of time,

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Speaker 1: Buck before you're gonna see the Minnesota Vikings, who are

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Speaker 1: three and five right now, are gonna end up catching

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Speaker 1: up to the Chicago Bears just because there's no offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they can't score. You look at Minnesota and

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Speaker 1: some of their issues and defensively they were kind of

549
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: weren't what they were previously. But when I look at

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Speaker 1: that team, they can score points. I just look at

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Speaker 1: this bearrass team and trying to figure out how the heck,

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Speaker 1: they're going to maintain a winning record as we come

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Speaker 1: down the stretcher of the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: With this offense, I don't see it. Yeah, I really

555
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: don't understand, like why they haven't been able to really

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Speaker 1: generate a consistent offense over the last year and a half.

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Speaker 1: Matt Naggie was hired part of it due to his

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Speaker 1: offensive innovation in his creative tactics, and they just have

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Speaker 1: not been able to establish an offense. And I would

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00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: say this, if you can't establish an offense, they need

561
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Speaker 1: to be great on defense and you need to find

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Speaker 1: a way to complement that defense with a running game

563
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: or old school smash mouth style. But what they're doing

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00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: right now doesn't work for me, and it certainly isn't

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Speaker 1: working for this team. Matt Naggie has a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to do when it comes to craft in this offense. Well, DJ,

567
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Speaker 1: you you let us right into it. Talking about the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna go with the next takeaway here

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Speaker 1: at number eight, the Vikings starting to string it together first,

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Speaker 1: intending from the thirty handoff, Calvin ships races on say

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00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: a touchdown this time, but the business baby, Dalvin Cook

572
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: some interesting symmetry here in this game. Paul Allen on

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Speaker 1: the mic there for the Vikings radio network. I as

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00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: a Detroit Lions fan all my dad was working for

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Speaker 1: them for about eight years from two thousand and eight

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00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: to two thousand and whatever it was fifteen. Um, I

577
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: heard Paul with that very same call way too many times,

578
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: but with Adrian Peterson told the Rock and there he

579
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Speaker 1: is on that field suiting up for the Lions. Like

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00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: it just it just kind of shows you some of

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Speaker 1: the embarrassment of riches that the Vikings have had here

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Speaker 1: at running back. Because Dalvin Cook, if not for the

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Speaker 1: Vikings sub five record, if not for their standing in

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Speaker 1: the division division at this point, and if not for

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Speaker 1: missing two games, guys, he might be leading the m

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Speaker 1: v P race at this point. I mean, I'll just

587
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: give you one here. He's just the third running back

588
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl era with twelve plus rushing touchdowns

589
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: five point seven yards per carry in his first seven

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Speaker 1: games of the season, since I was not even Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl era in NFL history, because you're going all the

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Speaker 1: way back to Jim Brown in nineteen fifty eight and

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00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: Terrell Davis in both Hall of Famers both won the

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00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,959
Speaker 1: league MVP that season. That's how good Dalvin Cook has been.

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00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: He's got the ability to break a game wide open

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00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: like he did on that long run against Detroit. He

597
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: has been just impossible to stop over two five yards

598
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: of scrimmage each to the last two games. Guys, if

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Speaker 1: he keeps putting that up like we might have to

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Speaker 1: start talking about him as an m v P. I mean,

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00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: he's been terrific, and I think the thing that all

602
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: scouts and general managers will talk about with Dalvin Cook,

603
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: this is the perfect marriage between a player's talent and

604
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: this game. We were excited about Gay coup Be taking

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Speaker 1: over his offense coordinated because we know where the stretched

606
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,239
Speaker 1: bootleg system looks like, that wide zone. And then when

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Speaker 1: you take a player like Dalvin Cook, who is a

608
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Speaker 1: perfect zone runner, you've seen the fireworks the last two weeks.

609
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: We've seen him go absolutely bonkers with the rock in

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Speaker 1: his hands. The Minnesota Vikings are slowly creeping up on

611
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: the competition in the NFC North because of their running

612
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Speaker 1: game and Dalvin Cook. It's an interesting develop to keep

613
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Speaker 1: an eye on because it looks like they may make

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Speaker 1: a run and it could be fascinated to whist Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook get all of the recognition that he so deserves.

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Speaker 1: That's what I love is that there's people actually listened

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Speaker 1: to the pod because Buck you mentioned we talked about

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Speaker 1: this and I just typed in, you know, move the

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Speaker 1: Sticks Dalvin Cook m v P, and on our June

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Speaker 1: fifth episode, Uh, we were talking and said it's uh,

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Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak is long but one of the best play

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Speaker 1: callers in the NFL. I think if you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook being the running as as the m v

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Speaker 1: P of the league. The run game is outstanding. They've

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Speaker 1: upgraded the offensive line. It's all set up for Dalvin

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Speaker 1: Cook and this Gary Kubiak system to have a monster year.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like we were out in front of

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Speaker 1: this one. Buck Well, I just felt out on the

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Speaker 1: mid season predictions and I didn't go all the way

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Speaker 1: at m v P, but I did. Offensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year is gonna beat Alpin Cook. He is absolutely amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're on that one. All right, let's

633
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Speaker 1: keep it going. Here take away number nine, and this

634
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: is a very specific takeaway here, Isaiah Johnson big backup

635
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: corner for the Las Vegas Raiders six ft two pounds,

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Speaker 1: Tray Von Mullen. He got hurt. Incomes Isaiah Johnson and

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00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: Isaiah Johnson saved the day. Herbert and the shotgun. This

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00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: is the game pot simalist touched out, touched up shot,

639
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: No doubt they will get a look at it. But

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Speaker 1: the signal on the field is touched out, and it does.

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00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: It is gonna be incomplete. I've never seen anything like

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00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: never money like that was money. That was money on

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Speaker 1: the call there. Think about this, guys. So Matt money

644
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: Smith played by play partner doing these Charger games. Uh,

645
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: in the New Orleans game, one of the officials underneath

646
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: the uprights, we're calling the game off monitors, so one

647
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: of them signaled that it was good for Michael Badgeley

648
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: at the end of regulation, which would have won the

649
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: game for the Chargers. So money makes the call, field

650
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: goes up, it's good. Chargers win, Chargers win, Chargers didn't win.

651
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: Then we go last week kJ hamdler in the end zone, passes, thrown,

652
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: referee signals incomplete, it's incomplete. Chargers win, Chargers win, No,

653
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Chargers did not win. And then this week Donald Parham touchdown,

654
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: Chargers win. You just heard the call. No Charges didn't win.

655
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: Has it ever been in the history somebody has had

656
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: three calls, and Money has had three calls where he's

657
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: where we all were sitting there, walk calling the game,

658
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: believing that they've won the game, only to find out

659
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: that they haven't. A microcosm of what's been going on

660
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: with the Chargers year long here in games but can't finish.

661
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: But Isaiah Johnson, I thought it was interesting, Uh, and Buck,

662
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: I'll go to you on this one, because Nevin Lawson's

663
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: five ft nine corner and on the other side you've

664
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: got Isaiah Johnson six ft two, And I thought by formation,

665
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: they could have manipulated matchups, they could have found a

666
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: way to get Mike Williams. Even if it wasn't Mike Williams,

667
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: I'd rather take my chances with Keenan Allen working on

668
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: on Nevin Lawson. Then to throw two jump balls at

669
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: one of the biggest corners in the NFL for the

670
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: last two shots you had at it in the game.

671
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: You know, Look, Mike, Mike Williams had it until his

672
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: head hit the ground, I think he and the ball

673
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: came out, and then Palm had it until Johnson was

674
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: able to poke it out. So I give Johnson a

675
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: lot of credit for saving the day, but I don't

676
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: I didn't love throwing two jump balls at a six

677
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: ft two corner. Now I'm not in love with the

678
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: fable in general. It's a low percentage pass and yet

679
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: each and every week we see teams lean on that

680
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: play call with the game on the line. I will

681
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,239
Speaker 1: say this about the Charge then I know it has

682
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: to be frustrated to be a Chargers fan. This quarterback

683
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: is man. He is fantastic. He does a great job

684
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: of keeping them in the game, and without three offensive lot,

685
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: without his number one running back, and just kind of

686
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: doing it with a you know, a unique patchwork offensive

687
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: a lot. He has been able to do it, and

688
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: he pushed him in a position to win. But at

689
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: some point the Charges have to win some of these

690
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: close games. Man to heartbreak each and every week has

691
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: to be tough on anybody associated with the franchise. You

692
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: guys both just let into my thought perfectly. I haven't

693
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: written down here in my notes. It's heartbreak versus Herbert.

694
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: How do you balance that if you're a Chargers fan?

695
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: Because Herbert has been so good, he's only getting better.

696
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: There's fun pieces around him all over the offense. They're

697
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: gonna continue to upgrade the offensive line. Eckler is gonna

698
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: come back here at some point, right and then you

699
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: just have your heart ripped out of your chest at

700
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: the end of every game. So here's my proposal. Watch

701
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: the game for fifty seven minutes. Watch Justin Herbert, Watch

702
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. Throw it all over the field, make these

703
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: terrific tight window throws, deep ball throw Enjoy it, enjoy

704
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: yourself basking that glow that you have found a franchise quarterback,

705
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: and then turn the game off. Just turn it off.

706
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: Just go to the beach, turn the game off. Go

707
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: just leave feeling really good about Justin Herbert in the

708
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: future of this franchise, and save yourself the heartache, because

709
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: deep down, I feel like that's what your broadcast partner

710
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: meant Whenny Smith wants to do DJ he wants to

711
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: just get the heck out of the able to get

712
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: fifty seven minutes. I know what I mean. If I'd

713
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: have told you, I mean, Bucky, I'll go to you.

714
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: Seven team touchdowns, five picks. He's completing over sixty of

715
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: his passes for yards and seven games are averaging over

716
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: three hundred yards of game UM and they have one

717
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: win in those starts. That's crazy. It's really unbelievable, and

718
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable a team that is as talented as the Charges. Yes,

719
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: I know they've been Andrew, they've been beat up, but

720
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: you look at the talent on this team. There's no

721
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: reason why this team shouldn't be a top ten team

722
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: in the league. And for whatever reason, they just can't finish.

723
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: They just can't find their way to the winner circle.

724
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: And I really don't know how you change it. I

725
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: don't know if there's things you can do in practice um,

726
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: but it won't change until they win that big game.

727
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: And I thought Sunday was that opportunity for them to

728
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: win a big game, to win a close game, and

729
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: maybe that would kind of open up the lid on

730
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: the ability to win. But we'll see another week. Another

731
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: heartache has to be tough for Anthony Land and their crew.

732
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: All right, what's next? Buck? Final one? Here? Number ten?

733
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: The Falcons show some life. Two receivers to the left,

734
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: play fake to Gurley. Here's Ryan gonna put it up

735
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: for grabs. Jones is wide open for the Atlanta touchdown. Oh,

736
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: they sold the play fake and then the throwback to

737
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: the front left pyeline and Julio Jones to the end

738
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: zone on his third touchdown catch of the year. How's filthy, man? Oh,

739
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, one of the best rod runners in football,

740
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: continues to get them each and every week. And when

741
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: I look at this Atlanta Falcons team, for he Morris

742
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: could have this team sitting at four and oh under

743
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: his direction to grand one. They're playing better, the defense

744
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: is playing better. Is still ugly for them at the

745
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: end of the games, but they are finding a way

746
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: to win. And at some point, Man, if he keeps

747
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: chalking up dubs and the way call him, I think

748
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Rich McKay and their ownership staff, they're gonna have to

749
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: consider him as a head coaching candidate. And I don't

750
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: know if there's anything I don't know if any of

751
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: us thought that that was a legitimate consideration when he

752
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: was elevated to the interim head coach well and kind

753
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 1: of an off the cuff type of comment. Owner Arthur

754
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: Blank did say if he Morris went eleven or no,

755
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: that he would consider him for the full time head

756
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: coaching job. Maybe he'd he'd overlooked the girly gaff at

757
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: the end of the Lions game. You know, that would

758
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: have made them for no. At this point. If he

759
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: does win out, maybe tenant one will be good enough. Um,

760
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: but look, this is just what frustrates you about Atlanta

761
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: the last I don't know, every year since the Super Bowl,

762
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: the talent has been there. The talent has been there

763
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: on offense, the talent has been there on defense, even

764
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: though they've had some trouble rushing the past. Y've done

765
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: that a little bit better this year with Dante Fowler.

766
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: But uh, they're just they're just so frustrating that you

767
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: could start a season oh and five and now you

768
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: have this big turnaround and they're three and one, and

769
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: gosh they're not I mean not too far out of

770
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: the playoff race, you know as it sits right now. Uh,

771
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, with the with US going to seven playoff

772
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: teams in each conference this year, like I think that's

773
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: still a little bit of a stretch. But look, it's

774
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: it's interesting, right You wonder though, where they'd be if

775
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: they'd have made a move, if this truly was what

776
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: needed to happen. You know, why why didn't you make

777
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: the move following last season. I know you finished winning

778
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: six of eight, but still you started one and seven

779
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: last year, so you know, it does beg the question,

780
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, why wasn't there more consideration to something like

781
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: this done before the start of the season. Well, I

782
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: just think it's interesting because if if for him were

783
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: to get the job, I think whatever path that you're on, right,

784
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: if you're on this path, we're on this path with

785
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: dan Quinn, Thomas Demitri. If you go for him, I

786
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: think the path just alters a little bit, right. I

787
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: think you you're gonna see some tweaks and some changes,

788
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: but for the most part, you're gonna stay committed to

789
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: the guys you've got there, and they're gonna try and

790
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: continue to do what they've done. If they go outside

791
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: the organization. I mean, this thing is just you're going

792
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: into you're taking a total turn. I mean this is

793
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: a kind of a gut job. It's a rebuild. Um,

794
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, Bucky, were are you on on that? But

795
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: to me, if if it's for him, I don't see

796
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: this as being a I don't think he's gonna be

797
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: the head coach for them to do a total tear

798
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: down and rebuild. To me, it feels like, man, we're close.

799
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: We just tweak a couple of things, and and and

800
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: off we go. Well, you know, DJ, there's a couple

801
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: of different things that play, because remember, not only do

802
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: you have Rahem, but you got Rich McKay who has

803
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: stepped back into the main decision maker role. He elevated

804
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: Rust and Webster. And so if you keep this the same,

805
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: you would like to think that they're going to kind

806
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: of row with it the way that it is role previously. Yes,

807
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: you make some tweaks and adjustments, but if you bring

808
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: somebody else in, you're absolutely right, you may take two

809
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: steps back before you begin to make some progress going forward.

810
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: If your ownership, what do you feel most comfortable doing.

811
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: Do you feel comfortable overseeing a complete tear it out

812
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: or do you want to tweak it and be convinced that, hey,

813
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: there's just a few things that we need to do

814
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: to get back on track and re emerge as a

815
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: team that could compete in the NFC South. You know,

816
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: let me check check my math on this here for

817
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: a second. Rust and Webster talking about the former former

818
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: GM of the Tennessee Titans, right, who had joined the

819
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: Falcon scouting staff who when he was with the Titans,

820
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: fired Ken wizzen Hunt and had Mike Malarkey step in

821
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: as the interim coach, and then ended up hiring Malarkey

822
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: full time. Right, Am I wrong on that? I think

823
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: I think that sounds right. I mean, look, it's kind

824
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: of setting up that way, isn't it. Here? Uh, we'll

825
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: read it makes sense because you have to go all

826
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: the way back. If you look at the history, all

827
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: these guys were together with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Risk

828
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,439
Speaker 1: McKay was the GM rust and Webster was a guy

829
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: that it rose from the ranks of being a area

830
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: scout to being a national scout. Right he Morris was

831
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: on that staff when they won the Super Bowl as

832
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: a secondary coach. So for the sake of synergy, you

833
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: could see that move made because of the comfort level

834
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: that everyone has with everybody as opposed to stepping outside

835
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: of the organization bringing in new faces, new ideas, new voices.

836
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: You just don't know how that plays out. Yeah, And

837
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: I just finished it up. Go ahead, I finished I

838
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: finished this conversation up right here, het, because you know,

839
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of return policy they have,

840
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: but if you're a Falcons fan that had ordered your

841
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence jersey, you don't want to get a refund

842
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: on that because there's no way on God's green Earth,

843
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: I can foresee the Jets winning three games. So you

844
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: have your three wins. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, that's good.

845
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: You're on your way. But Trevor Lawrence, that ship has sailed.

846
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,959
Speaker 1: You gotta let that well. It's been a fun show

847
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: today looking at the takeaways, and as we've kind of

848
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 1: finished looking back, Buck, I'm excited to look forward because

849
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: we've got a huge matchup coming up next week in

850
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: the NFC West. Rams and Seahawks always one of the

851
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: best of the year. It is always one of the

852
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: best of us because a lot of times it determines

853
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: who is the winner of the division. And so when

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Speaker 1: you think about this game and you think about Sean

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Speaker 1: McVeigh and Pete Carroll and just an interesting chess match

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Speaker 1: that takes place between those two coaches can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see it play it on the field. Yeah, no more injuries, please,

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Speaker 1: There's been enough injuries this NFL season. Let's keep everybody healthy.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the finish line here, we've got some

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Speaker 1: big games coming up again. We'll we have you covered

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Speaker 1: with the recap of those games with our takeaway show

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Speaker 1: next Monday, so I hope you look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it today. We've had a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. We do appreciate you hanging with us. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you next time. Right here, I'll move the sticks

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